FDP federal party conference 1955

53.1475 8.227778Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 51 ″ N , 8 ° 13 ′ 40 ″ E



title	6th ordinary federal party congress
Serial number	6th
place	Oldenburg
state	Lower Saxony
Hall	Weser-Ems-Halle

Beginning	March 25, 1955
Duration (in days)	2

Weser-Ems-Halle

The Free Democratic Party held the federal party convention of the FDP in 1955 from March 25 to 26, 1955 in Oldenburg . It was the 6th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany . The reason for choosing the location and the time was the upcoming state election in Lower Saxony in 1955 . The party conference took place in the Weser-Ems-Halle .

Course and resolutions

The party congress was dominated by the discussion about the Saar Statute . Many delegates criticized the division that the FDP had shown on this issue. On February 27, 1955, Franz Blücher was the only member of the FDP to vote “yes”. Thomas Dehler therefore made a conscious effort to achieve unity in his opening speech and demonstratively shook hands with Franz Blücher on stage.

The party congress received five resolutions from the party's federal women's committee. It called for an increase in the Federal Republic of Germany's contribution to UNICEF , a draft law on preservation, the demand for separate counting of women's votes in elections, the abolition of discrimination against women when concluding employment contracts and the demand for more discussion of social policy issues. The party congress discussed these papers, but did not take any decisions.

In his statement of accounts, federal treasurer Hans Wolfgang Rubin complained about the lack of support from the regional associations for the federal association's treasury (it was not until the following year that he succeeded in getting the federal association to participate in the membership fees). Income and expenditure of the federal association were each a little over one million DM.

Federal Executive

Thomas Dehler (1964)

The election for the party executive committee was overshadowed by the fact that Hermann Schäfer and Carl-Hubert Schwennicke demonstratively refused to run again. On March 21, 1955, Schäfer had sent a letter to the MPs and board members in which he criticized the previous FDP policy and declared that he wanted to work “without the restrictions imposed by a party office for the rapid self-reflection of the FDP”. For the previous deputy federal chairman Schwennicke, a Berlin delegate said that Dehler's speech at the party congress and the debate had not resolved the differences in content.

Dehler was confirmed as party leader in office with 172 of 223 votes and 11 votes against, with no opposing candidates.

After this party congress, the federal executive board included:

position	Surname	Election result (Subj. // Yes // Ent. // Ung.)
Chairman	Thomas Dehler	223 // 172 // 51 //
vice-chairman	Friedrich Middelhauve Wolfgang Haußmann Wilhelm Nowack	236 // 151 // 21 // 1 // (Opposing candidate: August-Martin Euler 63 votes) 234 // 137 // 97 239 // 177 // 56 // 9
Treasurer	Hans Wolfgang Rubin	239 // 153 // 85 // 1
Assessor	Marie-Elisabeth Lüders August-Martin Euler Erich Mende Willy Max Rademacher Hermann Kessler Joachim Strömer	// 202 // 36 // 1 // 158 // 58 // 21 // 167 // 68 // 2 // 130 // 87 // 6 // 130 // 5 // 4 (Opposing candidate: Otto Bezold 91 votes) // 149 // 69 // 16
Assessor of the entire board	Max Becker Wolfgang Mischnick Paul Luchtenberg Hans Wellhausen Herta Ilk Bernhard Leverenz Konrad Frühwald	204 votes 142 votes 131 votes 127 votes 123 votes 104 votes (runoff) 104 votes (runoff)
Chairman of the parliamentary group	Thomas Dehler
Representatives of the regional associations	Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Berlin Bremen Hamburg Hesse Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Schleswig-Holstein	Eduard Leuze Otto Bezold Carl-Hubert Schwennicke Georg Borttscheller Edgar Engelhard Oswald Kohut Konrad Mälzig Willi Weyer Josef Dohr Paul Haas

Documents

Election results for the federal executive committee, sheet 1
Election results for the federal executive committee, sheet 2
Election results for the federal executive committee, sheet 3
Elected federal executive, sheet 1
Elected federal executive, sheet 2

Others

Heinz Ullmann and Richard Kussmaul were elected as auditors .

swell

Protocol of the party congress , ed. from the federal leadership of the Free Democratic Party, Bonn 1955.
VI. Ordinary federal party conference. 25./26. March 1955 , o. O. 1955.
Experienced in Oldenburg. Report of the LDPD delegates to the FDP federal party conference in 1955 in Oldenburg , ed. from the LDPD party leadership, Daily Rundschau, Berlin 1955.
Peter Raunau: Order through Oldenburg? To the party congress of the FDP. In: Social Democratic Press Service , year 1955, no. 69, March 24, 1955, p. 1.

literature

Jürgen Dittberner : The FDP. History, people, organization, perspectives. An introduction , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17494-5 .

Peter Juling : Programmatic development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Introduction and documents. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1977, ISBN 3-445-01529-5 .

Heino Kaack : On the history and program of the Free Democratic Party. Floor plan and materials , Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1976, ISBN 3-445-01380-2 .

Holger Löttel ( edit .): Adenauer and the FDP . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn etc. 2013 (= Adenauer. Rhöndorfer edition ), ISBN 978-3-506-77874-1 .

Volker Stalmann (edit.): The FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. Meeting minutes 1949–1969 , 2 half-vols., Droste, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-7700-5338-4 .

Udo Wengst (edit.): FDP federal executive. The Liberals chaired by Thomas Dehler and Reinhold Maier. Minutes of meetings 1954–1960 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5159-9 .

Web links

Commons : FDP Federal Party Congress 1955 - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Federal Party Congress - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

↑ The decision on this was made at the federal executive committee meeting on January 15, 1955. Wengst, FDP federal executive. Minutes of the meeting 1954–1960 , pp. 110–117.
^ Information from: Archiv des Liberalismus ( www.freiheit.org/content/archiv-des-liberalismus ) (ADL), inventory of the FDP Federal Party Rallies, A1-1.
↑ Internal disagreement . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 29, 1955.
↑ Dehler's re-election as FDP chairman secured . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , 26./27. March 1955.
^ Dehler's speech is in the ADL , inventory of the FDP federal party conventions, A 1–86, pp. 22–54.
↑ Impressions from the FDP party conference in Oldenburg. In: Holger Löttel (edit.): Adenauer and the FDP . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, pp. 416-419.
^ Juling, Programmatic Development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Meisenheim 1977, pp. 25 f .; Kaack, On the history and program of the Free Democratic Party , Meisenheim 1976, p. 18 f.

[1] The decision on this was made at the federal executive committee meeting on January 15, 1955. Wengst, FDP federal executive. Minutes of the meeting 1954–1960 , pp. 110–117.

[2] Information from: Archiv des Liberalismus ( www.freiheit.org/content/archiv-des-liberalismus ) (ADL), inventory of the FDP Federal Party Rallies, A1-1.

[3] Internal disagreement . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 29, 1955.

[4] Dehler's re-election as FDP chairman secured . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , 26./27. March 1955.

[5] Dehler's speech is in the ADL , inventory of the FDP federal party conventions, A 1–86, pp. 22–54.

[6] Impressions from the FDP party conference in Oldenburg. In: Holger Löttel (edit.): Adenauer and the FDP . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, pp. 416-419.

[7] Juling, Programmatic Development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Meisenheim 1977, pp. 25 f .; Kaack, On the history and program of the Free Democratic Party , Meisenheim 1976, p. 18 f.